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Official Organ of Butts County.
Entered hh eecond-cIaMR matter, Novem
ber H, 1907, at tlie postoftkeat .Jackson, Oa.
Telephone No. 166.
Jackson, Ga., Friday, Feb. 12, 1909.
THE RED OLD HILLS
OF GEORGIA.
The red old hills of Georgia!
Ho lx>ld and bare and bleak,
Their memory fills my spirit
With thoughts I cannot speak.
They have no robe of verdue,
Stript naked to the blast;
And yet of all the varied earth
I love them best at last.
The red old hills of Georgia!
My heart is on them now;
Where, fed from golden streamlets,
Oconee’s waters flow!
I love them with devotion,
Tho’ washed so bleak and bare; —
How can my spirit ever forget
The warm hearts dwelling there?
I love them for the living,—
The generous, kind, and gay;
And for the dead who slumber
Within their breast of clay.
I love them for the bounty
A’hieh cheers the social hearth;
1 I >ve them for their rosy girls,
/ te fairest on the earth.
ThJ red old hills of Georgia!
v here, where upon the face
O .‘artli is freedom’s spirit
lore bright in any race?—
Jn Switzerland and Scotland
Inch patriot breast it fills,
L t sure it blazes brighter yet
-.mong our Georgia hills!
A 1 where upon their surface,
heart to feeling dead?—
A l when has needed stranger
one irom those hills unfed?
T se biavery and kindness
>r aye go hand in hand,
(J m your washed and naked hills,
vly own, my native land!”
Tl red old hills of Georgia!
. never can forget;
A id I ire’s joys and sorrows,
, iy heart is on them yet;—
A. i when my course is ended,
.ad when life her web has wove,
. may i then beueath those hills,
.ie close to them I love!
—Henry Rootes Jackson.
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v ice is not a bad combination.
st why Atlanta should get so
vitn so much hotair floating
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Inns that comes up at this
a *.t the year.
th death of Mrs. Penn of
•h tieeUo News the weekly
k . .f ered a real and perma
' She wrought with
is ability and made the
News one of the best
irnals in the state.
Greer is back in har
■> ot the Fitzgerald
corking good pa
y. He is a credit
- - state and one of
vors in the, state,
.ear nor fearing
, • a patter of honor
/volved.,
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TOWN AND COUNTY—THE SAME.
The life growth, development and future of Jackson and Butts
county are linked together with ties that cannot be severed or
broken. As one grows and goes forward the other will follow m
the wake. Their interests, hopes and aspirations are the same.
This being true there should be a unity of inte est, a whole-souled
| cooperation on the part of the town and the county. A better un
derstanding will bring about better results.
The Jackson Chamber of Commerce was formed with the pur
pose of promoting the interest of the whole people. As much or
more will be accomplished for Butts county than for Jackson. An
organization selfish in its aims and narrow in its plans, would not
be worthy of the support of the people. It is an organization that
is working for the best interests of all the people, the town and the
country alike. Its aim is to be an organization worthy of the re
spect and the cooperation of the people and to be a body of which
the town and County may well be proud.
If good roads can be secured through the Chamber of Com
merce working with the County Commissioners both town and
county will be benefited. It will mean a greater opportunity tor
all concerned, a development of one of the most important indus
trial enterprises now before the people.. This is a movement worthy
of the cooperation of every man living in Jackson and Butts county.
If new enterprises can be secured for Jackson Butts county will
share in the benefits. It will create and open up additional mar
kets for the produce grown in this county and this will help the
farmers. A home market for all the poultry, corn, cotton, pork,
beef, hides, is what is needed to make this county and section take
on new life. A ready home market for all the produce grown will
keep the money at home and this means greater prosperity for the
people.
The Jackson Chamber of Commerce was formed on a liberal
and broad basis. It is working on a large and comprehensive scope.
It hopes to accomplish much that will be of lasting good to Butts
county and Jackson. It is striving to merit the support ana coop
eration of every man in the county. When so much is taking place,
when things are happening on such a large scale it is a time for the
people to work together and pull together. The events of the next
few months will mean everything for Jackson and Butts county. If
the trolley line is secured, if new enterprises come as they are ex
pected to come this will be the favored section of the state. And
they will come if the right kind of encouragement is extended to
them.
This is no time for bickering. It is a time when the highest
patriotism should be brought to bear in working for the upbuilding
of one of the richest sections of a great state. It is a time when
duty to the welfare of town and county should put to silence the
critics and forever hush the pessimist.
Every enterprise for the town and county will lower the tax
rate. Every new industry that springs up in this fertile section
will add to the wealth of every man, woman and child in the
county and will be a fit heritage to the coming generations. Good
roads for Butts county, scientific methods of agriculture, a market
for all the produce grown, new enterprises for Jackson, establish
ments with large payrolls, a guarantee of an abundant amount of
money, the great medium of exchange that stops and causes to
turn the wheels of industry; these are the things needed just now.
And a broad and liberal policy is working for these things, mu
tual cooperation between town and county. A long, steady, hard
pull will bring these things and more.
That is what the Jackson Chamber of Commerce stands for.
That was what it was formed for, and that is its purpose.
THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH
The cotton ginned in the South of the crop for 1908 is stated at
12,000,000 bales to the first of January, and the end is not yet.
This has a gold valuation of approximately $600,000,000, and as its
production is confined to not over twelve states, it can readily be
perceived what a tremendous amount of wealth is concentrated
into those states by this single product. By its cotton the South
will always have the world as its customer, and the commerce
based upon the cotton, the shipping brought to its ports by the cot
ton, the surplus capital the South is now acquiring coming from its
great crops of cotton, will be used in the development of its other
great natural resources, until the Southland becomes again the
potent section of the Union. The tide of immigration from abroad
will soon assume once more its vast proportions, but as it has al
ready shown a reflex movement from its former impetus to the far
West, the Southern states in the coming five years will gather in
thousands from abroad to the hundreds it formerly received. The
flow of our population is distinctly southward at this time. Minne
sota, lowa, Nebraska and Kansas are losing thousands of their
most energetic people to Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio are contributing good, progressive, valuable citi
zens to Lousiana, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi; indeed to the
whole southern tier of our country.
Florida has men from every Northern state in the Union busily
engaged in building up that most beautiful, picturesque, and in her
climate, ocean and land resources, one of the richest states in the
Republic. To build up the South is to enrich the entire country,
and in no other section will the same amount of capital directea
with the same judgment produce so great results. The country is
justly proud of the unprecedented growth of the ports of the great
lakes. Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago and Du
luth, modem marvels each and all of them, founded on activity in
our own Northern states and with the co-operation of the four or
five millions of the people of Canada.
What is the scope of territory available to. these wide-awake
cities and what the number of people contributory to their growth
and maintenance compared with tne ports of Norfolk, Charleston/
Savannah, Jacksonville, Key West, Tampa, Pensacola; Mobile, New
Orleans, Galveston and Port Arthur?, These Southern states have
baek of them all the United States south of the great _ lakes and
west of Washington. They can have ’direct communication with
every commercial port on the oceans of the globe. Snow; and ice
do_ not block their roads nor. close their harbors. ' of the
commerce of. the world is to the tropics,'and when- the Panama -
canal is opened the southern ports will be filled .with the ships of
all nations. The Eastern states are dependent upon the West and
South for their food products as fully as is Western Europe. The
South is drawing to herself gradually,’ slowly, but surely, the com
mercial streams which naturally seek outlets at her ports and will
find herself enriched by their passage. The South is dependent
upon no other section for food, for raiment, for building materials-;
r or for the comfort and happiness of her people. She possesses ev
ery resource necessary for agricultural, industrial, commercial and
financial prosperity. Through her productions she has the call
upon the money of the world, -The Spokesman.
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